英汉词典

evil 基本解释

• adj. 邪恶的；不幸的；有害的；讨厌的
• n. 罪恶，邪恶；不幸

evil 词态变化

evil 中文词源

来自PIE*upelo, 来自*upo的扩大形式，词源同sub-, 在下面。其本义为过度，后词义进一步恶化，并最终由过度到邪恶的。

evil 英文词源

evil

evil: [OE] Evil has got distinctly worse over the millennia. Originally it seems to have signified nothing more sinister than ‘uppity’, and in the Old and Middle English period it meant simply ‘bad’; it is only in modern English that its connotations of ‘extreme moral wickedness’ came to the fore. It probably comes ultimately from *upelo- a derivative of the Indo-European base *upo- ‘under’ (source of Greek hupó ‘under’, Sanskrit upa ‘at, to’, and English up and over), and so its underlying connotation is of ‘exceeding due limits, extremism’.

Its Germanic descendant was *ubilaz, source of German übel ‘evil’ as well as English evil.
=> over, up

evil (adj.)

Old English yfel (Kentish evel) "bad, vicious, ill, wicked," from Proto-Germanic *ubilaz (cognates: Old Saxon ubil, Old Frisian and Middle Dutch evel, Dutch euvel, Old High German ubil, German übel, Gothic ubils), from PIE *upelo-, from root *wap- "bad, evil" (cognates: Hittite huwapp- "evil").

In Old English and other older Germanic languages other than Scandinavian, "this word is the most comprehensive adjectival expression of disapproval, dislike or disparagement" [OED]. Evil was the word the Anglo-Saxons used where we would use bad, cruel, unskillful, defective (adj.), or harm (n.), crime, misfortune, disease (n.). In Middle English, bad took the wider range of senses and evil began to focus on moral badness. Both words have good as their opposite. Evil-favored (1520s) meant "ugly." Evilchild is attested as an English surname from 13c.

The adverb is Old English yfele, originally of words or speech. Also as a noun in Old English, "what is bad; sin, wickedness; anything that causes injury, morally or physically." Especially of a malady or disease from c. 1200. The meaning "extreme moral wickedness" was one of the senses of the Old English noun, but it did not become established as the main sense of the modern word until 18c. As a noun, Middle English also had evilty. Related: Evilly. Evil eye (Latin oculus malus) was Old English eage yfel. The jocular notion of an evil twin as an excuse for regrettable deeds is by 1986, American English, from an old motif in mythology.

evil (n.)

Old English yfel (see evil (adj.)).

evil 词组搭配

evil 英文释义

1. morally objectionable behavior

2. that which causes harm or destruction or misfortune;

"the evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones"- Shakespeare

3. the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice;

"attempts to explain the origin of evil in the world"

evil 同义词解析

bad, evil, ill, poor, wicked

这些形容词均含"坏的"之意。

bad： 含义广泛，指任何不好的或不合需要的品质。

evil： 语气比bad强，强调道德上的邪恶不良，含狡猾凶险或危害他人的意味。

ill与evil意义接近，但语气弱一些，常指道德或性质方面的不良。

poor： 普通用词，侧重指事物的质量或数量低于标准或不合要求。用于指天气与食品时可与bad通用。

wicked： 语气比evil强，指居心叵测，任意违反道德标准，有意作恶。

evil 双语例句

1. When we go out, girls are always giving me the evil eye.

我们出去时，女孩子们总是用忌妒的眼神看着我。

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2. Two and a half years ago I gave up the evil weed.

两年半以前我改邪归正，不抽大麻了。

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3. With knowledge and wisdom, evil could be vanquished on this earth.

拥有了知识和智慧就能够把恶势力从这个世界上铲除。

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4. After 1760 few Americans refrained from condemning slavery as evil.

1760年后，很多美国人都在谴责奴隶制的社会危害。

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5. The perpetrators of this evil deed must be brought to justice.

必须将参与这一恶行的凶手绳之以法。

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evil 实用场景例句

an evil man

恶棍

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an evil grin

狞笑

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evil deeds

恶行

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the evil effects of racism

种族主义的恶劣影响

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evil spirits

邪灵

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an evil smell

难闻的气味

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the eternal struggle between good and evil

善与恶永不休止的斗争

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the forces of evil

邪恶势力

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You cannot pretend there's no evil in the world.

你不能睁着眼睛瞎说世界上没有罪恶。

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the evils of drugs/alcohol

毒品 / 酒的害处

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social evils

社会弊端

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...those who see television as the root of all evil.

那些将电视视为万恶之源的人

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Apartheid is even a greater evil...

种族隔离是更大的祸害。

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Higher taxes may be a necessary evil.

提高税收可能会很不受欢迎，但却是必要的。

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...the country's most evil terrorists...

该国最邪恶的恐怖分子

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She's an evil woman.

她是个邪恶的女人。

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After 1760 few Americans refrained from condemning slavery as evil...

1760年后，很多美国人都在谴责奴隶制的社会危害。

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They are setting an evil example for their children.

他们正给孩子们树立道德败坏的反面形象。

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I think this is an evil spirit at work...

我认为这是恶魔在作祟。

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According to local folklore it is an evil place.

据当地民间传说，那是个不祥的地方。

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Both men were smoking evil-smelling pipes.

两个男人都在抽着难闻的烟斗。

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You can simply go on putting off the evil day and eventually find yourself smoking as much as ever.

你当然可以想方设法摆脱，但最后你会发现自己还是像以前一样拼命抽烟。

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People voted for him as the lesser of two evils...

人们投票支持他只不过是两害相权取其轻罢了。

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One suspects that hydro power is still the lesser evil.

有人认为水力发电仍旧是两害相较取其轻。

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He could not, after all, stop all the evil in the world.

毕竟他无法阻止世界上的所有恶行。

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There's always a conflict between good and evil in his plays.

他的戏剧中总是有善恶之间的斗争。

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We are still being attacked by the forces of evil...

我们仍在遭受邪恶力量的攻击。

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